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The United States on October 4, 1789

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Washington
George Washington np · since Apr 30, 1789
Senate
14 PA · 6 AA
24 senators · 1st Congress
House
29 O · 11 F
49 representatives
Supreme Court
5 n
5 justices by appointing party
Union
11 states
0 amendments in force
Troops abroad
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1789-10-04/executiveThe administration
President George Washington np
since Apr 30, 1789
Vice President John Adams F
Secretary of War Henry Knox
since Mar 8, 1785
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton F
since Sep 11, 1789
Secretary of State John Jay F (acting)
since Sep 15, 1789
Postmaster General Samuel Osgood F
since Sep 26, 1789
Attorney General Edmund Randolph F
since Sep 26, 1789
1789-10-04/congress1st Congress
Senate · 14 PA · 6 AA · 2 DR · 2 F
Oliver Ellsworth (Pro-Administration, CT)William Samuel Johnson (Pro-Administration, CT)George Read (Pro-Administration, DE)Richard Bassett (Anti-Administration, DE)William Few (Anti-Administration, GA)Tristram Dalton (Pro-Administration, MA)Caleb Strong (Pro-Administration, MA)Charles Carroll (Pro-Administration, MD)John Henry (Pro-Administration, MD)Samuel Johnston (Pro-Administration, NC)Benjamin Hawkins (Pro-Administration, NC)Paine Wingate (Anti-Administration, NH)John Langdon (Democratic Republican, NH)Jonathan Elmer (Pro-Administration, NJ)William Paterson (Pro-Administration, NJ)Philip John Schuyler (Pro-Administration, NY)William Maclay (Anti-Administration, PA)Robert Morris (Pro-Administration, PA)Pierce Butler (Democratic Republican, SC)Ralph Izard (Pro-Administration, SC)William Grayson (Anti-Administration, VA)Richard Henry Lee (Anti-Administration, VA)James Gunn (Federalist, GA)Rufus King (Federalist, NY)
House · 29 O · 11 F · 6 R · 2 DR · 1 PA
Benjamin Huntington (?, CT-AL)John Vining (Pro-Administration, DE-AL)George Mathews (?, GA-3)Abraham Baldwin (Democratic Republican, GA-2)Jonathan Grout (?, MA-8)George Partridge (?, MA-5)Elbridge Gerry (?, MA-3)Daniel Carroll (?, MD-6)Benjamin Contee (?, MD-3)George Gale (?, MD-5)William Smith (?, MD-4)Michael Jenifer Stone (?, MD-1)Joshua Seney (?, MD-2)John Baptista Ashe (?, NC-1)John Steele (?, NC-4)Timothy Bloodworth (?, NC-3)Elias Boudinot (?, NJ-AL)William Floyd (?, NY-1)Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (?, NY-6)Peter Silvester (?, NY-5)John Laurance (?, NY-2)George Clymer (?, PA-AL)Aedanus Burke (?, SC-2)Daniel Huger (?, SC-3)Thomas Tudor Tucker (?, SC-5)Thomas Sumter (?, SC-4)Theodorick Bland (?, VA-9)Alexander White (?, VA-1)Samuel Griffin (?, VA-10)Richard Bland Lee (?, VA-4)John Brown (?, VA-AL)Andrew Moore (Democratic Republican, VA-3)Fisher Ames (Federalist, MA-1)George Leonard (Federalist, MA-7)Benjamin Goodhue (Federalist, MA-2)Theodore Sedgwick (Federalist, MA-4)George Thatcher (Federalist, MA-6)Hugh Williamson (Federalist, NC-2)Samuel Livermore (Federalist, NH-AL)Egbert Benson (Federalist, NY-3)Benjamin Bourne (Federalist, RI-1)William Loughton Smith (Federalist, SC-1)Josiah Parker (Federalist, VA-8)James Jackson (Republican, GA-1)John Sevier (Republican, NC-5)John Hathorn (Republican, NY-4)Isaac Coles (Republican, VA-6)John Page (Republican, VA-7)James Madison (Republican, VA-5)
1789-10-04/supreme-courtThe bench
John Rutledge
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 26, 1789
John Jay
Chief Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 26, 1789
William Cushing
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 27, 1789
James Wilson
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 29, 1789
John Blair, Jr.
Associate Justice · appointed by George Washington · since Sep 30, 1789
1789-10-04/weekWithin a week · Sep 27, 1789 – Oct 11, 1789
Justice William Cushing — Associate Justice
Sep 27, 1789 · Associate Justice
Justice James Wilson — Associate Justice
Sep 29, 1789 · Associate Justice
Law An Act to regulate Processes in the Courts of the United States.
Sep 29, 1789 · Ch. 21, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to explain and amend an Act, intituled “An Act for registering and clearing Vessels, regulating the Coasting Trade, and for other purposes.”
Sep 29, 1789 · Ch. 22, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act making Appropriation for the Service of the present year.
Sep 29, 1789 · Ch. 23, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act providing for the payment of the Invalid Pensioners of the United States.
Sep 29, 1789 · Ch. 24, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to recognize and adopt to the Constitution of the United States the establishment of the Troops raised under the Resolves of the United States in Congress assembled, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Sep 29, 1789 · Ch. 25, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Law An Act to alter the time for the next Meeting of Congress.
Sep 29, 1789 · Ch. 27, Sess. 1, 1st Cong.
Justice John Blair, Jr. — Associate Justice
Sep 30, 1789 · Associate Justice

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